One man's trash...

[Kuasimodem]

...is another man's treasure

A buddy of mine called me about 3 hours ago and told me he saw one of his neighbors throw a complete computer system into the dumpster at his apartment building. I drove over there and pulled an HP Pavillion 8380 tower, NEC Multisync 5FG, speakers and keyboard from the dumpster. The monitor is dead (or so I think, can't get a picture out of it), but the tower, keyboard and speakers work great

400Mhz Pentium II CPU
96Mb PC100 SDRAM
8.4Gb WD Caviar
Hitachi DVDROM

I think that this will be the perfect replacement for my grandma's old Pentium 100Mhz computer w/ 600Mb hard drive


She's already got a nice 19" MAG monitor

[chipbgt]

Just in case in the future anyone wants to throw out an old computer, let one us know in the future before ya do.....although I doubt anyone on here does anything less than a funeral with burial when a computer goes obsolete

[JacobM5727]

i always peek in the dumpster to see if there is anything computer ish.. i would love to get free dumpster parts..

now to just get his passwords and cc numbers from his txt docs he made so he wouldnt forget them..... just playing

[M_Six]

...when a computer goes obsolete...

Whaddya mean "obsolete"? Is that possible on equipment that's only 6 or 7 years old? My TV is 8 years old and works fine. I think obsolete computer is an oxymoron.

[Theophylact]

Computers are never obsolete, as long as they run. Programs may become obsolete; last year's TurboTax is useless this year. Media tend to become obsolete; if you need an 8-inch floppy, good luck; even 5¼-inch disks are hard to find. But computers? Plenty of people still run their TRS-80's.

[Brainchild]

I still use mostof the parts of my first 486 I just threw away the MOBO which was toast.

[chipbgt]

Originally posted by Theophylact
Computers are never obsolete, as long as they run. Programs may become obsolete; last year's TurboTax is useless this year. Media tend to become obsolete; if you need an 8-inch floppy, good luck; even 5¼-inch disks are hard to find. But computers? Plenty of people still run their TRS-80's.

shshhshshs.....I know computers dont go obsolete.....but dont let newbies hear that!

[Kuasimodem]

shshhshshs.....I know computers dont go obsolete.....but dont let newbies hear that!

I just set up a router for my cousin a couple months ago. 100Mhz Pentium with 96Mb of EDO and a 500Mb hard drive running Smoothwall and 3 NICs. One NIC is the input, and the other two connect to his computers Total cost was the time to download and burn Smoothwall to a disk, and then set it all up.

Kinda looks funky... desktop Presario with no monitor, mouse, or keyboard... no sound card... and a cable modem sitting on top of it

It actually had settings in the bios to boot with no monitor, mouse or keyboard